North Fort Myers High School - Lance Yearbook (North Fort Myers, FL)

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i XX M -in -,M Teocher, Mr. Steve Frank discusses the techniques used in his photogrophy cioss with porents of his fellow students. Students ond their porents Ieove homeroom to odven- f- 'fe f- school doy ot North High. .MA K t M , W , . Former Red Knights reminisce of the good 'ole doys ot North High. Open House

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18 A Super Night for Knights A Anyone driving by North High School on the evening of September 13, 1984 would hove guessed thot something wos being given owoy free. Cors squeezed into every ovoiloble piece of ground. Troffic hod to be directed by potrolmen. Bodies jommed the corridors, doorwoys, ond clossrooms. It wos North High School Open House, '84. - the first of its kind in over o decode. The initiol onnouncement of this event brought sundry reoctions. Some considered open house odvontogeous only ot the elementory ond middle school levels. Skeptics prophesied the evening to be o flop, while, on the other hond, optimists predicted it to be o success. The optimists won. Almost 1100 people groced the com- pus of North High School to support the ef- forts of foculty ond stoff in the educotion of their children. Future Red Knight dreom of coreer gools coming true ot North High's Open House, . As the multitude scurried through the hollwoys in the effort to moke it to clossrooms on time, porents reolized the problems North students encounter doily in jommed corridors. Squeezing into pint-size desks, odults muttered mony on ouch or Yikes, how do they fit in these? Teochers honded out course outlines ond exploined groding. Porents exomined textbooks ond workbooks during those ten short minutes in eoch closs. Some were even privileged to try out equipment ond mochines. Two hours ofter Mr. Srickles first wel- comed the guests to Open House he ogoin took the microphone to offer closing remorks. He onnounced the homerooms thot won sub sondwiches for hoving the most people ottending: 9th Miss Morsong 10th Mrs. Joger, 11th Miss Goudelli, ond 12th Ms. Gerzloff. Much to the dismoy of the juniors, they would hove to ossume seots on the floor ot the first pep rolly becouse they hod the fewest people ottending the evenlng's octivities. Everyone wos pleosed with the out- come of the evening. Fomilies went home with the encourogement thot their teenogers were being provided with o solid educotion for their futures by compe- tent, compossionote stoff members. The odministrotion ond foculty were ex- hiloroted by the verbol ond visible poren- tol support. The School Boord of Lee Coun- ty wos impressed by the turnout ond op- proprioted funds for the construction of o much-needed ouditorium. Yes, the celebrotion of students, foculty, odministrotion, ond porents ot Open House, '84 wos worth the ten-yeor woit. Exclomotions of Gee, thot wos fun! were heord oll evening long. The ultimote reoc- tion wos Let's do it ogoin next yeor! Mothers Joann Bank ond Jewell Beigh show interest in their doughters' school work by discussing their typing obility with teocher Mrs. Scott. Open House , , Y YY 77777 .

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Former Red Knight, David Skinner rerninisces of his old football days with cheerleading daughters Monica and Lisa. vgfllfsq iff!! Thinking of future days, Red Knights Monica and Lisa rw. K l A A 6 559 Pi 'ff Generations Skinner talk over graduation. Still displaying the tradition of Red Knight Spirit, the Skinners stand proud at their mascot's feet.